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The owner of sites including Contractors.com and iMotors.com has agreed to acquire local business network MerchantCircle. Reply, a firm that connects buyers and sellers of real estate, auto, and home contractor leads and site traffic, purchased MerchantCircle for $60 million in cash and stock.
Reply will consist of the Reply Marketplace platform which offers locally-targeted ads on a cost-per-lead and cost-per-click basis, along with Reply Media, now home to MerchantCircle.com, Contractors.com, Bloglines.com, and iMotors.com. MerchantCircle President and founder Ben Smith will serve as president of the Media arm. Reply's founder and CEO Payam Zamani will be CEO of the combined firms.
MerchantCircle, which includes 1.6 million local merchants in its network, offers small local businesses marketing services, allowing them to buy leads and create coupons, for instance. Consumers can also post reviews about companies on the site, which will maintain the MerchantCircle name after the acquisition is complete.
MerchantCircle's Smith expects overall traffic to grow significantly as a result of the pairing, in part because his firm's traffic is organic while Reply's is historically paid traffic. "I don't think there's a whole lot of overlap on the traffic side," he said.
As MerchantCircle has focused on organic traffic and building a publisher network, Reply has focused on building a sales force and turning paid traffic into leads, said Smith. "It's almost like we were separated at birth," he added.
The companies expect the acquisition to be complete in the third quarter of this year. The companies said in a press release that both firms are profitable, projecting revenues of more than $100 million next year.
"Too many companies, especially large online media companies like Google and Yahoo, focus on building directories rather than a level of engagement with local [businesses]," said Zamani. "That's really what we are focused on building together."
According to Smith, the combined companies plan to make another acquisition, though he would not reveal what type of firm they are in the market for.
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Hi everyone! I am planning a two week trip to Peru in the beginning of April and am very excited, but stumped on how to plan out my itinerary, I have done a lot of research, but there is a lot of information and I find myself getting a little overwhelmed. Hoping that some of you experienced travelers can help me out a bit!
Here are the places I would like to see in Peru. Lima, Machu Picchu, Cusco, Puno, and Huacachina. I wish I had more time to see other places, but don't want to be to speedy throughout the places I really am looking forward to seeing.
I am the most confused and concerned with when to visit Machu Picchu and where to stay. Adjusting to the climate is a big concern of mine and I've read that some people suggest staying in Ollantaytambo first as opposed to Cusco. Do you think this is necessary?
I have been traveling throughout Argentina and Chile for the last 2 months so I am on a bit of a budget when it comes to my trip to Peru, but I am prepared for things to be a little bit more expensive.
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Hi everyone! I am planning a two week trip to Peru in the beginning of April and am very excited, but stumped on how to plan out my itinerary, I have done a lot of research, but there is a lot of information and I find myself getting a little overwhelmed. Hoping that some of you experienced travelers can help me out a bit!
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2 weeks should be enough to enjoy Peru. I took a trip there and to Bolivia last year (Oct/Nov for 3 weeks) and I visited pretty much all the places you listed except Puno (went to Copacabana-Isla del Sol instead).
Huacachina could be skipped in my opinion and replaced by Paracas but that really depends on what you like.
I would also add Arequipa and the visit of the Colca canyon (2-day trek) but that may be a bit too much although it was my favorite experience in Peru after Machu Picchu.
I wouldn't recommend to fly straight to Cusco after Lima as indeed you may have some issues with the the change in altitute. Instead, visit Lima and proceed to Huacachina (or Paracas) then to Arequipa (if you would like) and then Cusco.
You need to reach Aguas Calientes from Cusco to visit Machu Picchu. Our Cusco/Aguas Calientes/Machu Picchu trip was as follows:
- Day 1-2: Cusco
- Day 3: Cusco to Aguas Calientes (night there)
- Day 4: Machu Picchu all day (with the ascension of Huayna Picchu) and return to Cusco in the late afternoon
Let me know if you have more questions. You can also check my full trip itinerary on the website listed in my profile.
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Concur with Kevin. I'd substitute Paracas Peninsula and Arequipa for Huacachina. You can take buses down from Lima.
There is a train from Arequipa to Puno that then goes to Cusco (change trains in Puno or take the bus). Although I don't know for certain, I suspect that taking the train would help with altitude sickness as you would have time to get used to the lack of oxygen (it helped me taking the bus to Huaraz from Lima). The ride is supposed to be lovely, but I haven't taken it.
Unless you've been to Puno first, do go to Ollantaytambo for overnite, then catch the morning train to Aguas Calientes from there. Overnite in Aguas Calientes, hit the MP park again first thing in the morning to see the sunrise, then go back to Cusco. You'll need at least two days in Cusco and another day to do a tour of the Sacred Valley. A week in the area is not too much time.
I would not take a trip to Colca Canyon--it takes a day to get there and a day to get back to Arequipa and you're there for just a few hours. One of my bigger traveling mistakes was to do this. OTOH, the town we stayed in on the way was very unusual and the camraderie was fun.
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Just out of pure curiosity, what do you all think of barbie dolls.
I for one can't stand them, never liked them when I was a kid cause I thought they were stupid to play with, don't like them as an adult cause I still think they're stupid to play with and I don't really like the whole image they portray.
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Barbies (the doll), love 'em or hate 'em
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Barbies (the doll), love 'em or hate 'em
I loved them as a child and still do. DD has the Disney princess ones.
I can understand why people are against them due to the image they portray though.
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Barbies (the doll), love 'em or hate 'em
Barbies are awesome. They have been around for a long time and I don't think there is a image thing with them. The newer Barbie wanna be's yes there is. My dd loves her Barbie princesses. She has repunzal and Ariel lol even my DS plays with them.
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Barbies (the doll), love 'em or hate 'em
I just bought Ken and Barbie ( from toy story 3) for DS for Xmas!
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I've got no problem with Barbie. I used to play with mine all the time when I was younger.
I bought dd her first Barbie for her 4 th birthday last month and she loves it.
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I'm obsessed with dolls and collect them, but not Barbies.
Growing up I had one Barbie and she had a pink bob (courtesy of BlissedOut's salon), then I had over 20 mint condition Kelly dolls (Barbie's little sister).
I *might* let DD have Kelly dolls if they still make them and she asks for Barbies.
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I'm with Waterliily. I have very fond memories of playing Barbies with my sister as a child. We had a very cool barbie house too.
I do understand why others don't like them though. As an adult I can see that she doesn't exactly portray a healthy image... but as a child it never occurred to me. I just liked to dress her up
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Barbies were by far my favourite thing to play with as a child.
My friends and I still played with them up until the end of primary school and a few times in secret when we were in year 7!
I still have a soft spot for Barbie.
I really enjoyed buying Barbie stuff for my god daughter when she was still young enough to play with them (she outgrew toys at about age 7 ).
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No issues with barbies here. If dd wants them she can have them (she's 2 and has 1 Barbie and the car). I don't really ban things as such though (expect Dora/age inappropriate) I encourage dd to select for her self-with a bit of help of course.
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Re: Barbies (the doll), love 'em or hate 'em
I freaking loved barbies. I had about 15 of them. I didn't know anything about her so-called 'ideal' body shape, my My Little Ponies probably weren't accurate horse body shapes either, I was 5 so I just cared about the awesome awesome outfits.
This was my favourite. Come on, what little girl wouldn't think this was the coolest doll EVER.
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"A few rare individuals refuse to have limited lives. They drive through tremendous amounts of pain—from rejections and failures to shorter moments of embarrassment and anxiety. Because they avoid nothing, they can pursue their highest aspirations. They seem more alive than the rest of us." ~Phil Stutz and Barry Michels
If you were to see me in a social situation, you'd think that I'm confident.
And in most informal social settings, I am. Now.
I love people, love hearing their stories, so most of the time I trust my ability to relate and connect.
But this wasn't always the case.
These were skills I had to re-learn.
During adolescence, probably as a result of my parents' divorce and going to a new school where I felt completely out of my depth, I lost my natural childhood confidence.
Approaching new people felt very hard.
I would often spend break times at school pretending to be busy doing work, to avoid the shame of having to go up to a group and ask whether I could sit with them and face the potential humiliation of being told no.
It was a very lonely time.
For most of my high school career I avoided reaching out unless I was pretty certain of a favorable response.
Then I left school and took a gap year and needed to make money, so I started a job waiting tables.
I was perfectly capable of upgrading to waiting tables after the mandatory month of training (when I was responsible for clearing plates and setting tables but didn't have to engage much with customers). But I was so afraid of the having to approach people and the deal with the uncertainty of how they would respond to me that I declined and continued to train for another two months.
Eventually it got ridiculous and I had to take the risk.
I can still remember my first few months waitressing.
I was terrified to approach new people and initially would try to avoid it by giving tables away.
But then something interesting happened. By now I wanted to buy a car, and the pain of being dependent on others for transport was greater than the pain of the potential rejection, so I started to force myself out of my comfort zone—and I started to enjoy it.
I started to enjoy the uncertainty and the challenge. I realized I loved meeting people from different places and hearing about their lives.
This increasing confidence and enjoyment of connecting with people has been key in helping me accomplish a number of my dreams, especially in relation to my work.
I've gotten several jobs through being able to connect with people, who then recommended me when an opening opened up (though this was not my initial intention when connecting with them).
My challenge now is to develop the same confidence I have in informal social situations and apply it to performance situations. This is still an area where I struggle with performance anxiety and feel self-conscious.
So I will continue to use the ideas below myself!
1. Our minds play tricks on us.
As Alison Ledgerwood, Ph.D, says in her TED talk entitled Getting Stuck in the Negatives (and How to Get Unstuck), our minds are built to look for negative information and hold onto it. Failures stick in our minds longer than successes do.
What that meant for me is that in most cases, I was massively overestimating the potential for shame and rejection from each new interaction. But I was also underestimating my capacity to cope, should my worst fears ever come true. (In hindsight, I don't think that even the most challenging experiences came close to the horror stories my mind was telling me were possible.)
My mind kept reminding me of all the pain of failures I had previously experienced, rather than the times it had all worked out fine.
Alison Ledgerwood advises: "Our minds may be built to look for negative information and to hold onto it. But we can also retrain our minds if we put some effort into it and start to see that the glass may be a little more full than we initially thought."
Love that!
2. Just as our minds play tricks on us, we can trick our minds.
It turns out that how we interpret the feelings of fear is the key to determining whether we're able to engage or whether we avoid.
While most of us tell ourselves to calm down and stop worrying when we feel afraid, research out of Harvard shows that this standard response to stress may be well meant, but it's also wrong. Instead of trying to calm ourselves down, we should aim to get excited, suggests Alison Wood Brooks, Ph. D of Harvard Business School.
I was definitely not excited at the thought of approaching tables with the possibility of being shamed and humiliated.
But trust me, this works.
Why is that?
"When people feel anxious and try to calm down, they are thinking about all the things that could go badly. When they are excited, they are thinking about how things could go well," Wood Brooks explains.
Even if you don't believe it at first, when you say it repeatedly, authentic feelings of excitement increase.
Fake it until you become it!
The fact that you're reading this post is testament that this works. For years I've been wanting to write, but my own anxiety and self-doubt held me back. Now when I sit down to write and feel myself becoming anxious I repeat "I'm excited, I love sharing ideas with people" over and over again.
After a few minutes I can feel myself actually start to believe it, and I feel more able to write.
3. On the other side of fear is your limitless potential.
This is an idea from therapists Phil Stutz and Barry Michels from their book The Tools. They describe how we all tend to avoid emotional pain, but that this dramatically limits our potential.
We need to know that our infinite potential exists on the other side of our comfort zones, and if we want to actualize our potential we need to break through it.
They advise that we need to condition ourselves to get excited about the challenges in our lives, and instead of avoiding fear and pain we need to run straight at them screaming "BRING IT ON!!"
I know this to be true.
When I've had the presence of mind to remember this idea and keep going, rather than avoid, I find myself in a strange and unfamiliar place. It's a feeling of absolute freedom—of not being limited by what you fear.
And as a recovering worrier, that feels very good.
Here's how I'm using it to help me develop my confidence in performance situations. Mostly when I think of something that I want to do that makes me feel anxious, my tendency is to procrastinate and avoid it.
But now, when I notice that fear (and the intense discomfort it can bring), instead of avoiding, I tell myself something along the lines of: "Great, an opportunity to expand my comfort zone and my capability. Bring it on!"
This allows me to move from avoidance into engagement.
The more I repeat this cycle, the easier it becomes to do the things I fear (mostly because I see that the thing I'm terrified of happening doesn't actually happen).
While I can't go back in time and change the course of my younger self's life, every day I'm faced with choices that determine whether I move toward becoming what, deep down, I have a feeling I'm capable of becoming, or step back into my comfort zone to avoid risking humiliation.
What I now know is that the feeling of letting yourself down—the disappointment and unravelling confidence with each retreat—is far more painful than what is out there beyond the safety of what's familiar.
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Hopefully you watched Forrester's Stefan Ried present his webinar on cloud brokering and the many opportunities for different kinds of companies to exploit this technology. Part of Stefan's conversation included an explanation of the evolution to a unified cloud broker. If you missed it, you can catch up with it here.
As 2013 begins, it's a natural time to explore where cloud brokering is headed. A cloud broker is the intersection of infrastructure, software and consultancy. Naturally, technology is a key enabler for a service provider adopting the broker role but it also impacts business models and consultancy.
This diagram summarizes concept into the high-level architecture discussed above:
In the blue is a proposed "Unified Cloud Broker Platform." This shows how a cloud broker can take existing applications, SaaS and IaaS, and create customer value and a new cloud portfolio from them. This isn't necessarily a single product but shows the elements needed to offer the component parts that a cloud broker would need in their "stack" to offer compelling cloud offerings to ISVs, SMEs, enterprises and cloud ecosystem partners:
- A highly scalable, multi-tenant grid - required to allow the dynamic, "bursty" nature of cloud brokering and a solid foundation to cope with demand but also provide an efficient, effective multi-tenant core to the whole broker offering for multiple customers.
- Integration and connectivity - the broker must be able to connect their on-premise systems, the customers' systems and cloud-based SaaS, IaaS and other cloud services together.
- Unified provisioning and service aggregation - once connected to, the broker must be able to provision dynamic, customized and sometimes complex "bundles" of applications, processes, infrastructure and cloud offerings. Services must be aggregated together, regardless of source, to create the right offering for the customer.
- Business process and cloud orchestration - increasingly, cloud services need to be orchestrated together; this might be in the form of a cloud supply chain but also business processes that the broker wants to offer as a value-added service. There is a growing trend for process-centric applications to be offered by a service provider or broker.
- Value added services - taking the aggregated, orchestrated services and creating differentiated products, applications and service offerings is where the cloud broker can really start to generate value for the customer and create a high margin portfolio of offerings. These offerings are presented through channels and catalogues to the marketplace.
- Application marketplace - the enterprise "app store" is where the broker can offer a catalogue of cloud services with an economy of scale and a single, convenient billing model. The next step for these marketplaces is to go beyond the reselling of standard, vanilla offerings and offer customized, higher value added products and services.
- Enterprise mobility - offering enterprise mobility as part of the unified cloud broker platform allows mobile applications and mobility to be offered "as a service" by the broker to the customer. By combining all the capabilities from the broker "stack," the provider can offer rich, powerful mobile enterprise applications.
On the right of the diagram (in yellow) you can see the operations side of what a broker needs to do. This varies from billing and metering of the variety of services offered by the broker through to the day-to-day operations such as customer onboarding, order management and issue resolution. On top of that, business stakeholders and channel managers need visibility and intelligence into the operations, customer management and portfolio offerings.
On the left of the diagram (in green), you can see how an organization can use the unified cloud broker stack to create consultancy and professional services based offerings on top of the broker stack. By extending the capabilities of a unified cloud broker platform with PaaS, a service provider can create and take to market industry solutions such as financial services, energy/utilities, manufacturing/logistics, healthcare, etc. You can see this today from leading telcos, which are offering business and enterprise services. In fact this seems to be a dynamic area of M&A with telco service provider acquiring technology companies to build out their broker stack and create new industry vertical cloud offerings. These vertical solutions are typically then taken to market through consulting and professional services to customize and implement them for a customer's needs. The lengthy implementation cycles are greatly reduced as the capability is delivered from the cloud broker platform and customer specific customizations are composed and personalized thanks to a cloud delivery model and a well put together broker platform offering "mass customization."
While the cloud broker picture is still evolving, it's getting clearer, and it should crystallize throughout 2013.
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Comcast issued a statement yesterday apologizing for the behavior of their rep (whom Block declined to name to the public), assuring that "the way in which our representative communicated with [Block and his wife] is unacceptable and not consistent with how we train our customer service representatives."
However, today Block dug up a fascinating Reddit thread detailing Comcast's incentives programs that seem to in fact encourage this type of relentless behavior. The thread's poster, who claims to have worked for Comcast Corporate for nearly nine years, reveals that Comcast's so-called "retention specialists" are paid in accordance with how many customers they do — or don't — save.
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Comcast uses "gates" for their incentive pays, which means that if you fall below a certain threshold (which tend to be stretch goals in the first place) then instead of getting a reduced amount, you get 0$. Let's say that if you retain 85 percent of your customers or more (this means 85 percent of the lines of businesses that customers have when they talk to you, they still have after they talk to you), you get 100 percent of your payout — which might be 5-10$ per line of business. At 80 percent you might only get 75 percent of your payout, and at 75 percent you get nothing. The CAEs (customer service reps) watch these numbers daily, and will fight tooth and nail to stay above the "I get nothing" number. This guy went too far, you're not supposed to flat out argue with them. But Comcast literally provides an incentive for this kind of behavior. [Reddit]
And with that, we wish you good luck in your next customer service call. Kimberly Alters
Trevor Noah thinks Democrats could fight the GOP health-care bill — if only they weren't Democrats
The way Senate Republicans kept a tight lid on their health-care plan reminded The Daily Show's Trevor Noah of a very famous company that also likes to keep things under wraps — Apple.
It almost felt like the "launching of a new iPhone," Noah said Thursday night. "No one knew, there were leaks, we weren't quite sure. And just like Apple, today the Republicans sent out their own turtlenecked leader to reveal the bill." That would be Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who led Republicans in closed door sessions to craft the bill. The way Noah sees it, Republicans decided the right thing to do was "cut American's health care so we can give people tax cuts," but that's "not the point. It's like a fireman running into a burning building and saving the fire, not the baby."
The bill largely mirrors the hugely unpopular House bill, although with "dramatically deeper" cuts to Medicare. Because it takes trillions of dollars away from health care to fund tax cuts for the rich, Republicans are "taking a big chance with this bill," Noah said. It will be felt by people in every single state, including millions who voted for President Trump, and it should be easy for the Democrats to fight this, "but unfortunately, they're the Democrats," Noah said, before rolling a clip of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) dorkily trying to convey a message. Watch the video below. Catherine Garcia
Brian Kelly is a resourceful five-year-old — when his father, Dan, was deployed overseas in May, he started going next door and asking his neighbor, Dean Cravens, if he would join him in doing some of the same things he used to do with his dad.
The Kellys moved to their home in Belleville, Illinois, last July, and Brian and Dan loved doing yardwork together. At first, that's what Brian wanted to do with Cravens. "I thought, 'Well, let's do other things, too,' so we play catch, we'll be shooting the ball, working on my golf swing," Cravens told Good Morning America. He is the father of three daughters, and said he's been enjoying having a boy around, adding, "It's different."
Brian's mom, Barbara, told GMA she cannot communicate with her husband while he is overseas, but she's sure he'd be thrilled to know about his son's new friendship. "If that was me, I would be happy that my child is smiling and has someone to look up to and be there for them until I get back," she said. "When Dan gets back, Brian's going to cry and run to him with open arms." Catherine Garcia
The health-care bill drafted by Senate Republicans finally emerged from behind closed doors on Thursday, and with its cuts to Medicaid to fund tax cuts for the rich, the plan is "breathtakingly cruel," Seth Meyers said.
On Thursday's Late Night, Meyers took a closer look at the bill, which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) wants to have a vote on as early as next week, despite the fact that it was crafted during secretive meetings that were only open to a select group of Republicans. McConnell was "basically writing it by himself behind closed doors and nobody is ever doing anything good behind closed doors," Meyers said. "If your teenage son was locked in his bedroom this long, you wouldn't say, 'Hey buddy, are you doing extra credit homework in there?'"
Even people who were supposed to be writing the bill with McConnell were left in the dark; Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) was a member of the working group that was tasked with putting the plan together, but he said in a video earlier this week that he couldn't answer questions from constituents about it because he hadn't seen the bill yet. "Wait, you're supposed to be writing it and you haven't seen it?" Meyers exclaimed. "That's like your doctor saying, 'I think your liver transplant was successful, but I don't know, I was at the movies.'"
Meyers also noted how interesting it was that back when ObamaCare was coming together, there were more than 100 hearings and months of debates, but McConnell complained every step of the way, saying things were moving too fast and nothing was transparent. He shared a medley of McConnell's greatest hypocritical hits from 2009 and 2010, and it's almost as if McConnell's accusations against the Democrats and ObamaCare were actually predictions of what he would be doing in 2017 — he said, among other things, that "the bill we're being asked to consider was assembled behind closed doors out of sight without input from the public" and "they're doing everything they can to jam this bill through, and they don't even seem to care anymore about how ugly it all looks." Oh, how times have changed. Watch the video below. Catherine Garcia
Acting as mediator, Kuwait has given Qatar a list of 13 different demands from Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries it must comply with in order to restore diplomatic ties, The Associated Press reports.
Earlier this month, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates severed ties with Qatar, alleging the country funds terrorism. They are giving Qatar 10 days to, among other things, pay an unspecified amount in compensation; stop naturalizing citizens from the four countries and expel those living in Qatar; shut down diplomatic posts in Iran; cut all ties with the Muslim Brotherhood and Hezbollah; close down a Turkish military base inside the country; and shutter the broadcaster Al-Jazeera, which Saudi Arabia and the other countries claim supports the Muslim Brotherhood and incites unrest in the Middle East.
Qatar's government has not yet responded to the demands. If they meet them all, the country will be audited once a month for a year, then once per quarter for another year, and then annually for 10 years, AP reports. Catherine Garcia
Just a few days before he was fired after refusing to resign, former US Attorney Preet Bharara wrote a memo sharing his concerns about a phone call he received from the White House, BuzzFeed News reports.
Using the Freedom of Information Act, BuzzFeed was able to get an email on Thursday that Bharara sent on March 9 to then-deputy Attorney Joon Kim and Bharara's chief counsel, Joan Loughnane, in order to "memorialize certain events of the day." Bharara said he received a voicemail from Trump's secretary, Madeline Westerhout, asking him to call her back. He checked with Kim about the "propriety of returning the call," and reviewed copies of memos related to communications with the White House. He also spoke with Attorney General Jeff Sessions' chief of staff, Jody Hunt, to discuss the request. Bharara decided it was inappropriate to speak with Trump and called Westerhout to tell her this. The next day, he was asked to resign, and after refusing, was fired on March 11.
Parts of the email were redacted, specifically the sections that revealed details pertaining to "intra-agency communications," BuzzFeed reports. In an interview on This Week earlier this month, Bharara said it appeared Trump was "trying to cultivate some kind of relationship," and it is a "very weird and peculiar thing for a one-on-one conversation without the attorney general, without warning between the president and me or any United States attorney who has been asked to investigate various things and is in a position hypothetically to investigate business interests and associates of the president." Catherine Garcia
After being told they weren't allowed to wear shorts to school, about 30 teenage boys attending ISCA Academy in Exeter, England, showed up wearing skirts instead.
As part of their dress code, boys have to wear pants and girls can wear either pants or skirts, but when temperatures shot up, the boys asked school officials if they could wear shorts. They were told no, and a teacher sarcastically suggested they wear skirts. That's exactly what the boys did, borrowing regulation skirts from their classmates.
The school's head teacher told the BBC she "recognizes that the last few days have been exceptionally hot," but she didn't want to change the rules without "consulting both students and their families." One parent said she did approach the school to ask about her son wearing shorts, and she was "shot down." The protesting teens are supported by their fellow students, and most of the parents are proud of them for taking a stand. "Good on 'em," one mother told the BBC. Catherine Garcia
An Ohio-based coal company and its CEO are suing Last Week Tonight host John Oliver, HBO, and Time Warner for defamation, claiming on his June 18 show, Oliver executed a "maliciously planned attempt to assassinate the character and reputation" of Robert Murray and Murray Energy.
In a suit filed Wednesday in West Virginia, the company accused Oliver and HBO of a "callous, vicious, and false" attack on the coal industry as part of their "most recent attempt to advance their biases against the coal industry and their disdain for the coal-related policies of the Trump administration." During the segment, Oliver discussed ways "people conflate coal, coal miners, and coal companies and imply that when you help one, you help them all. But they are not all in the same boat." Oliver mentioned Murray and his company fighting against safety regulations in the coal industry, and at one point called Murray a "geriatric Dr. Evil."
The suit says Murray, 77, needs a lung transplant, thinks he won't live long enough to see this case reach a conclusion, and believes the segment incited people to "do harm to Mr. Murray and his companies." He is asking for financial damages and a court order preventing the segment from being aired ever again. During the segment, Oliver noted that when the show contacted Murray Energy for comment, they responded with a letter threatening legal action if Last Week Tonight did not "cease and desist from any effort to defame, harass, or otherwise injure Mr. Murray or Murray Energy." A representative for HBO told USA Today the company has "confidence in the staff of Last Week Tonight" and doesn't believe "anything in the show this week violated Mr. Murray or Murray energy's rights." Watch the segment causing all of this hullabaloo below. Catherine Garcia


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MLB is an increasingly dominant hegemon on the American and the global baseball scene. That hegemony affects almost every pitch that is thrown in the United States, from youth baseball all the way up to the World Series. It is a product of a confluence of events largely outside the realm of baseball, including such developments as the civil rights movement and population shifts following World War II. MLB's domination of the sport was not inevitable, but that is what has happened over the past fifty or sixty years. Just as it was not inevitable, it is also not irreversible.
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House flipping paying off again in Sacramento
Even though the Sacramento region saw a decline in the first half of the year from the first half of 2012 in the number of home flippers, those who did so this year made three times as much money, according to figures released Thursday by RealtyTrac Inc.
In January through June of this year, the average flipper locally bought a home for $212,556 and sold it for $250,732, according to RealtyTrac figures, for an average gain of $39,196, or 18 percent. A year ago, flippers made an average of only $12,571. RealtyTrac defined flips as homes bought and sold again within a six-month period.
Sacramento homes had on average no discount compared to the overall market when they were bought, but sold for an average of 10 percent above the estimated market value, according to RealtyTrac.
The trend here matched what the firm observed nationwide, where the year-over-year gain in profit on flipped homes was 246 percent higher. Sacramento homes even beat that mark, with a percentage gain of 311 percent from a year earlier.
RealtyTrac noted flipping was actually dropping off, however, from a year earlier. In Sacramento, the number of flipped homes was 1,783, or 28 percent fewer than the same number through June of last year. According to RealtyTrac, the drop overall stems from fewer distressed properties on the market, even though prices are still appreciating in many places.
Daytona Beach, Fla., where the average percentage gain this year was 38 percent, led the nation for flipped house profit by percentage in first half of this year.
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With Empress of Mars, as is to be expected of him, Mark Gatiss gives another welcome piece of 'bank holiday' Doctor Who. From the war film, horror and Victoriana pastiche, to the cheery boldness of its opening, to its gleeful wearing of Doctor Who's history on its sleeve, the episode's a delight. The kind of fast-paced adventure romp that's exactly what's needed after the longer arc of the last three episodes. The variety of storytelling that's been on offer since the Capaldi era began is still a pleasure to behold.
The summer weather outside today, and its tendency to remind me of childhood visits to Longleat, leaves me disposed to look more heavily at the episode's engagement with Doctor Who's past. As Gatiss has acknowledged, the episode owes a debt to The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967), along with all that stories own influences. This Ice Warrior equivalent benefits from the faster format of the modern series. Where the Cybermen emerged from their tombs halfway through their story, spending the rest of it going in and out again and staying resolutely contained, the Ice Warriors' mass awakening forms a vital part of this episode's climax.
We could, admittedly dwell on that awakening, and this alien civilisation for longer, as we did on the Cybermen in 1967. There's a little less time for that here, though we see an expansion of the Ice Warriors' hitherto unseen culture on Mars. More lore is laid down here than has been in many years. In particular, we have a new addition to the society's hierarchy with Iraxxa. Special mention can go here to Adele Lynch for a marvellous performance. Making a virtue of her costume's physical restriction, she relishes in the otherworldly distinction she brings to a role that, prosthetics aside, is largely a pastiche in itself (the warrior queen of a once proud race, etc. etc.). She gives the part the gravity it needs to succeed.
Empress of Mars also expands the Ice Warriors' story by acting as a prequel to the Peladon stories of the Jon Pertwee era. It isn't quite apparent until Ysanne Churchman's delightful surprise cameo as Alpha Centauri (flaunting her strange power to coincide with real-world trouble for the sitting Conservative Prime Minister, as she did in 1972 and 1974). The Ice Warriors have long been a fascinating species in Doctor Who, with the shift away from casting them as villains in The Curse of Peladon (1972). To see this shift actively occur is a pleasing piece of knot-tying. And hopefully no less dissatisfying an ending to the viewers it was lost on. (If that is the case, perhaps it can be repaid with further expansion in stories yet to come.)
This being a Gatiss episode, there's a heightened awareness of genre as well as Doctor Who on its own. There's a host of tropes so heavily used that it's hard to remember where they even began. Hot-headed, mutinous blowhards; cowardice redeemed; unlikely alliances formed to avert catastrophe; it's all there. And this awareness of genre is at its most blatant in Bill's constant film references – here, for the first time, they grated in their insistence, but I'm willing to let that slide for the Doctor's Frozen punchline. Quite apart from anything, this isn't Doctor Who that demands to be taken too seriously (Victorians on Mars struck me as a clue).
It's a treat after the sprawling, contemplative epic of the last three episodes to see the TARDIS crew leap into an adventure for the fun of it. Here we see the sense of fun that needs to be kept alive in the series even as the longer plot strands are threaded through each week. While Nardole (or rather Matt Lucas) graciously goes back to a peripheral role for this week, he does enable a further spot of tantalisation when he allows Missy to pilot the TARDIS. In the final scene, more hints are made as to her changing relationship with the Doctor. And, unlike last week, where frustration arose from what felt not-quite-developed-enough, here what feels to be deliberately omitted intrigues and intrigues further still.


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Final Assessment for KIB225: Character Development, Conceptual Design and Animation Layout. There were problems rendering the skin textures and this was the best result using mental ray and changing…+ More details
KIB221 CGI Toolkit 'Making Of' Video 2A01:44
The video shows the process of how my final CGI Toolkit assessment was made.+ More details
KIB221 CGI Toolkit Rendered Video00:32
Part B of the Final Assessment of KIB221 CGI Toolkit.+ More details
KIB225: Character Development, Conceptual Design and Animation Layout Assessment 3 Redone00:12
This is a redoing of the Final Assessment for KIB225: Character Development, Conceptual Design and Animation Layout. I did a complete re-doing of the whole assessment as wells as slight changes to…+ More details
LA MARTESANA DA CERNUSCO SUL NAVIGLIO A CRESCENZAGO (1 of 2)32:01
PARTE 1 DI 2 / PART 1 OF 2. Naviglio Martesana, provincia di Milano, Lombardia, Italia. Immagini del percorso lungo la pista ciclabile da Cernusco sul Naviglio fino a piazza Costantino a Crescenzago,…+ More details
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